Ok, so it's taken me a while, but a little nudging helped get me back on track. Below are the remaining certificates. I have a good idea what my thesis is going to be about, I just need to do a little more research before writing it in full.

Auntie Blackbeard

ChowMein

Roland Deschain - Half prophet, half gunslinger, all Pastafarian!

"Since Alexander Pearce escaped, over 250 people have disappeared in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have ever been found." - Dying Breed

Arr since I framed up me Doctorayte Certifeecut in me cabin I have found that me croo take me more seriouslee loik. I think it must be summat ta do wiv Fengeeshewyee or summat. I has thee certificate up behind me on thee wall so when a croo member comes in to complain (which hoccurrs every two ta three minutes on haverage) I makes sure they can see me doctorayte a hangin behind me...that an I usually has a couple o loaded pistols pointin at em.

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

I formally present to you all my doctoral thesis for my Pastafarian Philosophy Degree (or PPhD). It took two days to write it once I had the will and the time, and I think you may enjoy it. As it could not be pasted onto the forum, I have uploaded it onto mediafire in a PDF, which was converted from .docx (Word 2010). Feel lucky. I had originally forgotten to switch on the compression settings on my converter program, and it was 76 MB. It is now fortunately only just over 3 MB. Enjoy.

Top class, Roland! It will take me a while to plough through it all, but a brief skim of it reveals dodgy methodology, cherry-picking evidence, blatant experimenter bias, and just a touch of psychoticism. Excellent work all round!

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Roy Hunter wrote:Top class, Roland! It will take me a while to plough through it all, but a brief skim of it reveals dodgy methodology, cherry-picking evidence, blatant experimenter bias, and just a touch of psychoticism. Excellent work all round!

Thanks, Roy. I had a lot to live up to after you posted your one, not to mention the excellent others, so it was do or die. I wanted to make the Results/Discussion and Conclusion sections longer, but in the spirit of the occasion, felt that it would have betrayed the [dodgy] integrity of the whole.

EDIT: Psychoticism?

Roland Deschain - Half prophet, half gunslinger, all Pastafarian!

"Since Alexander Pearce escaped, over 250 people have disappeared in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have ever been found." - Dying Breed

Ravi Oli. There are a number of issues with your questions/statement there, which would not have happened if you'd been classically trained, and had written your doctorate. The problems with your method, and the benefits of mine, are:-

A cereal box is far too high brow for decent certificates.

The cost is far higher than just a stamp. You have to buy three of the boxes of said cereal, then the added issues of them going out of date before you consume them, and the cost of storage come into play.

I bet you cannot get a PPhD from them, or maybe not even a doctorate.

There is no satisfaction in getting certificates without the hard work and due diligence.

Writing a doctoral thesis helps sharpen the mind.

My certificates come virtually printed on old paper. It even has discolouration and stipples, for that extra little bit of authenticity.

Mine can be delivered to you lickety-split, rather than waiting for the cereal company to send theirs out.

You can get one of mine by just asking, stating your choice of design, as per the instructions in the OP, and stating what name/research you would like on the front of it (did you miss the whole thing with my loose morals, as per half the certificates i've given out?).

As you can see, the choice is that there is no choice. Mine far outweigh this false competition.

Roland Deschain - Half prophet, half gunslinger, all Pastafarian!

"Since Alexander Pearce escaped, over 250 people have disappeared in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have ever been found." - Dying Breed

Psychoticism is an aspect of the personality, which is roughly defined as the predisposition of the person to psychotic-type behaviour (not actually having a full-blown psychotic episode yourself). It was popularised by Hans Eysenck as part of his personality questionnaire the P-E-N (Psychoticism, Extraversion (sic), Neuroticism). The questionnaire was later expanded to include Social Desirability, or if you prefer, Lying.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Ravi Oli, in the instance of me using the first person plural pronoun "we" in my thesis, this was due to the convention in academic papers of using the first person narrative as little as possible. I can assure you that all the work was mine, and a search on Google for any part of that text will turn up nothing resembling my work. Trust me, there's nothing like that out there.

As to the chances of attracting the gentler sex (or so i'm told they are, but I don't believe it), the sophistication and style of it should be more than enough, but if it isn't, there's always the custom title and different designs to improve your chances.

Dr. Hunter, PPhD - Yeah, I did look it up, as I wasn't sure whether it was alluding to me being psychotic to any degree, and this coming out subconsciously in my thesis, hence the

EDIT: I just narrowly avoided double-posting, lol. I've edited my thesis to take care of a couple of grammatical errors and to add an acknowledgements section at the end. Link is below:-